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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

for me it was reading the first edition of Jensen & Wirth. the clarity of language of the "Pascal User Manual and Report", and groking a language in it's entirety with EBNF, these things blew my young mind open to everything that followed in my checkered career

https://topspicy.social/@alda/115650689718412796

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thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

Just now— david shares this link to phone bank for Aftyn: www.mobilize.us/grassrootsde...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bphhaybcgmzjrpjucak23tmh/post/3m6zamlyrsk2d

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ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
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A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supercharging the system.
https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-ranchers-public-lands-trump?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #Government #Trump #Environment #Grazing #PublicLands #Tax

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
muon@normal.style wrote:

batting the cooked vegetables out of your hand and screaming "don't eat that! it's processed! you chopped it up with a knife and cooked it on the stove! processes!!!"

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MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

While I’ve seen a number of reports emphasizing record spending on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there’s an interesting detail. Salesforce reports their data shows prices are up 7% year over year while orders are down 1%.

So the record spending is due to inflation not increased buying.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/29/black-friday-sets-online-spending-record-of-11-8b-adobe-says/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Right now someone at @theonion is furiously ripping up the story they labored over for hours

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/american-student-ends-trapped-giant-vagina-sculpture-n138311

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Trump definitely has a 'type,' and he doesn't factor in legal qualifications in his appointments.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/02/you-mean-legally-blonde-was-not-a-documentary/

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rikefranke@bagarrosphere.fr ("Ulrike Franke") wrote:

The German interior minister has inaugurated today a new unit of the federal police in charge of drone countermeasures.

https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/pressemitteilungen/DE/2025/12/drohnenabwehrzentrum.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blequerrec/115645932214798276

"The council will decide your fate."

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

xkcd didn't get as far as the step where the company demands that you contact them by fax.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/02/xkcd-doesnt-cover-all-the-possibilities/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

There's an important subtext at play here too that seems to work well. By cosplaying academics, AI-Doomerists are implying that smart people (ie liberals) have created, or will create, god.

It's not surprising to me that this narrative has fallen flat on conservatives, as the idea of playing god is sacrilegious.

So, unfortunately, the most sane observations about AI-Doomerism are coming from people we don't trust (for good reason)

#aidoomerism #liberal #AI

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

For at least a decade, since Trump took office, liberalism has been able to distinguish itself from conservatism using very eugenics-y ideals (i.e. intelligence, IQ, even superior bloodline by calling conservatives inbred).

To suggest liberals have fallen for their version of QAnon would be to challenge their very identity.

We know conservatives dug in their heels when we called them out for conspiracy. No reason to believe liberals would behave any different.

#AIdoomerism #AI #OpenAI

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Indie and non-traditional authors! Today is the day to tell thousands of readers looking for holiday gifts about your books! Follow the link for all the details and leave a post (there, not here)!

Musicians/crafters/artists, etc: Your day is tomorrow!

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/02/the-2025-whatever-holiday-gift-guide-day-two-non-traditional-books/

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Has Librewolf taken a definitive stance on including AI in its browser yet?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The trend towards liberals adopting the fantastical, by means of bad actors cosplaying academia, feels almost impossible to course, correct.

It would mean liberals would first have to admit that they are no less susceptible to propaganda than anyone else.

We say we get it, but being immune to propaganda is a large part of the liberal identify for the past decade.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Ironically, AI-Doomerist propaganda is written almost exclusively without exception by white men, while the women, Black and brown computer scientists warning us against these narratives are in discourse exile.

Most liberals don't even know these people exist.

#aidoomerism #AI #OpenAI

https://archive.ph/mPNPZ

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

#AIDoomerism—the belief that corporations will one day create an AI god who will either build for us a utopia or cast us down to literal robot hell—isn't an ideology proliferating across right-wing circles, but through left-of-center personalities. Hank Green being the latest example.

As anecdotal evidence, on three occasions I've had left-leaning friends send to me earnestly Rationalist / AI Doomer propaganda believing these messages are somehow subversive and anti-big tech.

#AI #OpenAI

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

#AIdoomerism relies on the left's obsession with using academia as a way to distinguish themselves from the lower classes.

AI Doomerists are exploiting the academia aesthetic through scholarly sounding blogs and corporate-funded studies disguised as academic journals.

California liberals never got over their obsession with eugenics, and it's being exploited to achieve regulatory capture— placing AI technology in the hands of a few billionaires.

#AI #Eugenics

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/13636/11599?inline=1#p3

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

also I don't know how to screenshot with more pixels apparently

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

me: laughing at Cloudflare's bug

also me: how tf do you write Rust without unwrapping everything?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

@NfNitLoop typst has been on my list to learn for a while now! Love a well designed document

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

This holiday season, buy a loved one a subscription to an indie journalist, news outlet or essayist.

(Unless that's not what they want and it makes you super annoying)

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

noted: Advent of Code day two status: done ★★

https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-12-02T07:27Z/

— avoiding regular expressions resulted in a better solution, who'd thunk it!

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

AI data centres — IN SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work

Science fiction is fiction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H%5FSaKXM82yg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251201-ai-data-centres-in-space-why-dcs-in-space-cant-work - podcast

time: 9 min 27 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/01/ai-data-centres-in-space-why-dcs-in-space-cant-work/ - text

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Starting to think “I’m going to consume all of the media you love and replace it with indistinct but incredibly expensive garbage while artists and writers starve” might not be the great strategy for winning the hearts and minds of the public that the tech industry thinks it is

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luftvaffel@oslo.town ("Luftvaffel") wrote:

#Fediverse

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markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"") wrote:

I just realized my Mastodon experience hasn’t enshittified one bit in the 2+ years I’ve been here.

In fact, it’s only gotten better.

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MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb, Double-You Tee Actual Fuck is this shit, and how do I make configure.ac figure it out:

Debian 12.11:

extern ssize_t getxattr (const char *__path, const char *__name, void *__value, size_t __size) __THROW __attr_access ((__write_only__, 3, 4));

macOS 14.7.7:

ssize_t getxattr(const char *path, const char *name, void *value, size_t size, u_int32_t position, int options);
https://jwz.org/b/ykx2